Workers Press no. 734

workers press

CONFERENCE

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

BY MICHAEL BANDA

WORKERS PRESS sends its warmest greetings to the Young Socialists' 12th Annual Confer- ence in Scarborough this week- end. By their consistent, tireless and uncompromising struggle against Toryism and reformist the praise have justly earned and admiration of every section of the labour movement. For the same reason they have also attracted the venom and proscription of the right-wing traitors and their Stalinist and revisionist allies in the trade unions and Labour Party.

But as the achievements of 12 years' principled struggle wait for the second reading of the Bill. shows there is no force that can stop the inexorable pro-

CAMPAIGNED

to establish solidarity the with seamen on gress of the YS. strike in 1966, despite the diver- The unique history of the sions of the Stalinists and YS is the most significant testi- revisionists. mony to the correctness of the AND all through the period of and Marxist method pro- the Labour government's betrayals gramme. It also confirms in the the YS joined with the Socialist most vivid manner, the poli- Labour League in the campaign tical genius and perspicacity of to expose the right-wing leaders.

founder of Fourth the left' fight and the the make MPs Leon International, Trotsky, lay the basis for an alternative leadership in the working class.

who fought to establish the revolutionary international on Because of this principled the new generation of workers.

and its refusal struggle The YS has a record of which the reformists, promise with the YS was able to make a powerful it can be justly proud. It

LED

the in 1964 campaign contribution to the creation of against the Labour Party right the daily paper, the Workers wing's policies of class collabora- Press, the building of the All and witch-hunting. Trades Unions tion and Alliance to CAMPAIGNED on behalf of the strengthen and consolidate the old age pensioners in the period Socialist Labour League. of the Labour government.

8,500 at Empire Pool, Wembley magnificent rally

FOUGHT

uncompromisingly against every attempt to stifle on March 12, which ended the independent trade onionism.

Right-to-Work marches, has

ORGANIZED

the against shown that the YS is well on infamous Prices Incomes and political force in ritain.

the being decisive Act while the Stalinists and No other movement has been centrists were asking workers to

IN NEXT WEEK'S

WORKERS PRESS

NEXT WEEK'S

made by Ernest Mandel, the arch-revisionist. in inter-

SPECIAL

an view with 'Der Spiegel'.

FEATURES

Yeats begins a Thursday: lan four-part investigation one Monday: John Spencer writes of the most ruthless engineer- on The Battle of Dienbienphu.

No ing battles England. Tuesday: Jack Gale investigates engineer facing pay and jobs the birth of the Congress of fights can afford to miss this Organization

(CIO),

completely-documented series.

Industrial Friday: The America's biggest industrial execution of the Communists in union. leading the Wednesday: Cliff Slaughter dis- Sudan: casebook in a the treachery. sects statements recently

THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 8,

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SC

able to organize anything com- parable to this tally or match the audacity, energy and political ambition of the YS. This is the greatest tribute to Trotskyism in W Europe. Today the progress of the YS is seen in the qualitative growth in membership and regional organization and the circulation of its monthly paper 'Keep Left'. Above all, it is seen in the its political quality of and theoretical work and the training of a political cadre which will provide the leader- ship for the coming British revolution. The highpoint of this struggle is expressed in the draft main resolution of this weekend's conference. The resolution begins with the monetary crisis and the August 15, 1971, measures and shows the irreversible nature of the and its im- economic crisis mediate and historic implications for the working class. It says: The crisis within world capi- employers talism drives the to attack all workers' rights and living standards and to move increasingly towards dictatorial and fascist forms of rule.

At the same time it must in- tensify the trend towards war above all war to recapture the markets and territories lost to the Russian capitalism following and Chinese Revolutions. The alternatives before the sharply working class are very posed in the world-either to go forward to socialism or to barbarism. To accept this analysis, how- ever, is not enough. To con- cretize it, as the YS resolution shows, is to participate in the class, struggles of the working defeat and expose its reformist and revisionist misleaders and direct all the energies of the class towards: • 4p • No 734

APRIL 8, 1972

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

WITHDRAW THE

TROOPS FOM ULSTER

The defeat and resignation of the Tory government and the election of Labour govern- pledged to socialist ment policies. In the words of the resolution: No Young Socialist can sit back and accept Heath and his cronies be allowed to re- main in power for their full term of office a further three and a half years. The truth of these words is amply borne out by the manner in which the employers and the implementing government are the Industrial Relations Act against the unions. It is the attitude to the Tory government and its replacement by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies that differen- tiates the revolutionaries from the reformists in the working class. But if this task is to be successfully prosecuted, it will not be done spontaneously or by some rank-and-file pressure and The entire history of protest. the YS and the construction of the Workers Press confirms, in every way, the correct and most decisive conclusion of the YS resolution: To build the Young Socialists into a mass revolutionary youth movement is to lay the foundations for the greatest in human his- transformation tory. This task is impossible without the corresponding devel- opment in consciousness to the highest level yet achieved in the Marxist method of dialectical materialism and its application to a scientific study of society. This is challenge of the Scarborough 1972. We are con- fident that the YS will once again confound its enemies and inspire by supporters accomplishing this task.

RELEASE

ANGELA

DAVIS

AND

BOBBY

SEALE

FOURTEEN hundred hourly-paid workers at the larger of the two Rolls-Royce factories in E Kilbride, Lanarkshire, voted at a mass meeting yesterday to give seven days' notice of strike action over a pay claim. The action was recom- mended by shop stewards who told the meeting that discussions on the claim were to be held next Thurs- day between the company and full-time union officials.

Works convenor Alastair McCulloch said afterwards that the meeting had been two-to-one in favour of strike notice.

Notice would take effect next Friday unless Rolls-Royce con- ceded to an 8 per cent increase without strings as a basis for negotiation. This would give workers rises ranging from £2 to £2.50 a week.

Workers at all the other Scottish Rolls plants-at Hilling- ton (Glasgow), Blantyre (Lanark- shire) and the other E Kilbride factory - accepted increases of between £3.25 and £4.75 a week.

workers press

CONFERENCE

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

SCARBOROUGH

BY MICHAEL BANDA

WORKERS PRESS sends its warmest greetings to the Young Socialists' 12th Annual Confer.

ence in Scarborough this week- end. and uncompromising struggle against Toryism and reformist treachery, the Young Socialists have justly earned the praise and admiration of every section of the labour movement. For the same reason they have also attracted the venom and proscription of the right-wing traitors and their Stalinist and revisionist allies in the trade unions and Labour Party.

But as the achievements of 12 years' principled struggle wait for the second reading of the Bill. shows there is no force that can stop the inexorable pro-

CAMPAIGNED

to establish solidarity the with seamen on gress of the YS. strike in 1966, despite the diver- The unique history of the sions of the Stalinists and YS is the most significant testi- revisionists. mony to the correctness of the

AND

all through the period of Marxist method and the Labour government's betrayals gramme. It also confirms in the the YS joined with the Socialist most vivid manner, the poli- Labour Leagúe in the campaign tical genius and perspicacity of to expose the right-wing leaders, founder of Fourth the left' MPs fight the the make and Leon International, Trotsky, lay the basis for an alternative leadership in the working class.

who fought to establish the revolutionary international on Because of this principled the new generation of workers.

struggle and its refusaf to The YS has a record of which promise with the reformists, the YS was able to make a powerful it can be justly proud. It

LED

the in 1964 campaign contribution to the creation of against the Labour Party right the daily the Workers paper, Press, wing's policies of class collabora- the building of the All and witch-hunting. Trades Unions tion and Alliance to CAMPAIGNED on behalf of the strengthen and consolidate the old age pensioners in the period Socialist Labour League. of the Labour government. The magnificent rally of

FOUGHT

uncompromisingly 8,500 at Empire Pool, Wembley against every attempt to stifle on March 12, which ended the independent trade unionism. Right-to-Work marches, has

ORGANIZED

the against shown that the YS is well on infamous Prices Incomes and the being decisive political force in Britain.

Stalinists Act while the and centrists were asking workers to No other movement has been

IN NEXT WEEK'S

WORKERS PRESS

NEXT WEEK'S

made by Ernest Mandel, the arch-revisionist, inter-

SPECIAL

an view with 'Der Spiegel'

FEATURES

Yeats Thursday: lan begins a four-part investigation John Spencer one Monday: writes of the most ruthless engineer- on The Battle of Dienbienphu.

No ing battles in England. Tuesday: Jack Gale investigates engineer facing pay and jobs the birth of the Congress fights can afford to this miss Industrial Organization

(CIO).

completely-documented series.

Friday: The America's biggest industrial execution of the Communists in union. leading the Wednesday: Cliff Slaughter dis- Sudan: casebook in the treachery. sects statements recently

THE NEWSLETTER

• SATURDAY APRIL 8, '

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SC

of able to organize anything com- parable to this tally or match the audacity, energy and political • ambition of the YS. This is the greatest tribute to Trotskyism in W Europe. Today the progress of the YS is seen the qualitative in growth membership and regional organization and the circulation of its monthly paper • 'Keep Left'. Above all, it is seen in the quality of its political and theoretical work and the training of a political cadre which will provide the leader- for the coming British ship revolution. The highpoint of this struggle Is expressed in the dratt main resolution of this weekend's conference. The resolution begins with the monetary crisis and the August 15, 1971, measures and shows the irreversible nature of the its economic crisis and im- mediate and historic implications for the working class. It says: The crisis within world capi- the employers talism drives fo attack all workers' rights and living standards and to move increasingly towards dictatorial and fascist forms of rule.

At the same time it must in- tensify the trend towards war above all war to recapture the markets and territories lost to the Russian capitalism following and Chinese Revolutions. The alternatives before the working class are very • sharply posed in the world-either to go forward to socialism or to barbarsm. To accept this analysis, how- ever, is not enough. To con- cretize it, as the YS resolution shows, is to participate in the : class, working struggles of the defeat and expose its reformist and revisionist misleaders and direct all the energies of the class towards:

APRIL 8, 1972

No 734 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

WTHDREN THE

TROOKS FOM ULSTE

The defeat and resignation of the Tory government and the election of Labour govern- pledged to socialist ment policies. In the words of the resolution: No Young Socialist can sit back and accept Heath and his cronies be allowed to re- main in power for their full term of office a further three and a half years. The truth of these words is amply borne out by the manner in which the employers and the implementing government are Industrial Relations Act the against the unions. It is the attitude to the Tory government and its replacement by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies that differen- tiates the revolutionaries from the reformists in the working class. But if this task is to be successfully prosecuted, it will not be done spontaneously or by some rank-and-file pressure and protest. The entire history of the YS and the construction of the Workers Press confirms, in every way, the correct and most decisive conclusion of the YS resolution: To build the Young Socialists into a mass revolutionary youth movement is to lay the foundations for the greatest in human his- transformation tory. This task is impossible without the corresponding devel- opment in consciousness to the highest level yet achieved-in the Marxist method of dialectical materialism and its application to a scientific study of society. This is challenge of the Scarborough 1972. We are con- fident that the YS will once again confound its enemies and its by inspire supporters accomplishing this task.

RELEASE

ANGELA

DAVIS

AND

BOBBY

SEALE

FOURTEEN hundred hourly-paid workers at the larger of the two Rolls-Royce factories in E Kilbride, Lanarkshire, voted at a mass meeting days' notice of strike action over a pay claim. The action was recom- mended by shop stewards who told the meeting that discussions on the claim were to be held next Thurs- day between the company and full-time union officials.

Works convenor Alastair McCulloch said afterwards that the meeting had been two-to-one in favour of strike notice.

Notice would take effect next Friday unless : Rolls-Royce con- ceded to an 8 per cent increase basis for without strings as a negotiation. This would give workers rises ranging from £2 to £2.50 a week.

Workers at all the other Scottish Rolls plants-at Hilling- ton (Glasgow), Blantyre (Lanark- shire) and the other E Kilbride factory — accepted increases of between. £3.25 and £4.75 a. week.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday April 8,

THE

TWO

ministers from the Radical Party of the Left-the most right- wing members of Presi- dent Salvador Allende's Chilean government - have resigned. They oppose Allende's plan to block government reforms aimed at stopping his nation- alization measures. Congress is dominated by the opposition Christian Demo- crats and Nationalists. Allende has said that he will submit the conflict to a constitu- tional council for arbitration, but the opposition is challenging him to hold a plebiscite. The Radical ministers only entered the government in lan- uary when Allende's regime took a shift to the right. CHILEAN workers have occupied the Peugeot assembly plant 70 miles NE of Santiago to back a pay claim. ARGENTINA'S army. has im- posed four hours an extra curfew on the riot-torn city of Mendoza which had been the scene of repeated clashes with demonstrators during the week.

Several people were injured when security forces opened fire on Thursday. After curfew the streets were patrolled by heavily-armed police and troops.

Argentina is being swept by a wave of discontent sparked off by soaring prices. Backed by the powerful Peronist movement, it?

threatens the unpopular Lanusse government. SOVIET Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin attended a ceremony at Irag's N Rumaila oilfield the first yesterday to mark crude oil flow through the pipeline to the Gulf port of Fao. . The field, which formerly was operated by the Iraq Petroleum- Company owned by the big international oil companies, was , nationalized in 1961. Soviet assistance over the past three years has enabled the new field to be put into production.

A fleet of tankers is being built in Spain, with the held of the Franco government. After listening to a speech from the deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Saddam Hussein Al-Takriti, which thanked the Soviet Union and the Spanish government for their assistance, Kosygin said: 'We profoundly believe in the successes of the Iraqi people and other progressive Arab countries in consolidating their economy, strengthening their sovereignty and achieving progressive social reforms.' He then joined with Takriti in cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the next stage of the work at Rumaila.

CLASH

A between the United States and the under- developed countries is expected to dominate the United sessions of the Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) which meets in Santiago next week. ay April 8, 1972 THE CLASS nature of the Ar United States is clearly reveate defence witness James Carr. H streets of an exclusive white ne his mother-in-law's house on Tr His death came less than a ' tion brought forward one of Brother George Jackson, with in San Quentin, as evidence The shooting of this 38-year- himself served six years in Sán linked with his unwillingness t Davis. The State of California has s an unprecedented security sc of armed guards, elaborate cl the court, and heavy protecti This screen apparently does n witnesses who can be casuall The significance of the Carr yond the borders of the US. I national tendency in the law Legat rights and protections a stripped away as the courts e openly as instruments of bourg ing class in this epoch of ins The Ceylon coalition govern!

for a system of secret trib

BY OUR OWN CORR

A S VIETNAMESE

armoured regiment panicked and ran from the rubber plantation town of Loc Ninh 60 miles from Saigon yesterday following a three-day assault by N Vietnamese forces. of their tanks and Twenty armoured vehicles were destroyed and a further 35 captured on Thursday. the N Vietnam news agency reported.

Saigon government officials gidentbess te fight its way through to trying Vietnamese a ring of 5,000 troops surrounding the town Cambodian below the just border. Liberation Radio, voice of the National Liberation Front, said its forces had taken complete control of the town and govern- commanders. had ment sur- rendered. As N Vietnam announced the victory at Loc Ninh, its forces in the central Highlands moved a "fourth battle, opening into front against Saigon regime.

There was heavy fighting Pr The poor countries have been hardest . hit by the Nixon measures of August 15 and by the subsequent devaluation of the. dollar. This chopped $500m increased their reserves and their indebtedness by $2,500m.

The US aid programme is in ruins and nothing has been done to give preferential treatment to f. the Angela Davis trial in the revealed in the murder of key • Carr. He was shot down in the white neighbourhood as he left se on Thursday night. than a week after the prosecu- one of his letters to Soledad on, with whom he shared a cell vidence against Angela Davis.

38-year-old black militant, who 's in San Quentin, could well be igness to testify against Angela ia has surrounded the trial with urity screen, including dozens orate checks on spectators at protection for judge and jury.

does not protect inconvenient casually silenced by gunmen.

the Carr shooting goes far be- he US. It is a part of an inter- the law courts of capitalism.

ctions are being systematically courts emerge more and more of bourgeois rule over the work- h of insoluble economic crisis.

government has just legislated cret tribunals to try political

VN CORRESPONDENT

around Dak To airfield not far the important provincial from capital of Kontum. The central Highlands are close to the border where the frontiers of S Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia merge. S of Saigon, in the Mekong Delta area, there : has also been with rocket and heavy fighting, attacks against S Viet- mortar namese bases: The original N Vietnamese offensive across the demilitarized zone has already eliminated all Saigon strongpoints in the region, and a large number of government troops are hemmed in at the town of Quang Tri.

Despite continuous American the N Viet- bombing strikes mamese 2oyr road from Hue to Quang Tri on • Thursday and their troops are southwards through pouring gaps in the S Vietnamese lines.

• The N Vietnamese are further attempting to strike into Saigon's demoralization battered battalions, issuing Vietnamese instructions to S soldiers on how to defect, and talking of a coalition govern- ment to tempt over sections of the Saigon regime. offensive in Vietnam is The becoming a direct threat to ing President Nixon's electoral the exports of the less-developed countries. The US is expected to be bitterly criticized for failure to consult with them on last year's currency changes. The critics of US policy are divided among themselves, while 'rich' countries are the so-called not likely to air their differences they in such a forum. In fact, have already got a worked-out , offenders. The tribunals will accept any confession even if extracted under torture; government agents will not be liable to cross-examination and incriminat- ing statements made by accomplices can be accepted as evidence. There is appeal against their sen- no tences, which can include life imprisonment.

Next month in Britain, the Criminal Law Revision Committee, chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies who sentenced the Great Train Robbers, will recom- mend sweeping changes in the law of evidence to favour the police and prosecution.

Their report calls for restoration of Star Chamber practices which have been outlawed in the British courts for more than 200 years.

These include aboli- tion of the police caution warning a suspect that he need not say anything; power to compel an accused person to enter the witness box and the general admissibility in evidence of previous convictions.

The Tory government is already planning a Bill which will be rushed through parliament to give effect to these far-reaching proposals.

The basic legal rights which the Committee and the government wants to abolish were won in the fight against the Star Chamber and the prerogative courts whose arbitrary character has become a legend. The attack on these vital rights, like the sinister shooting of James Carr in California and the formation of tribunals in Ceylon, is an act of class war making the growing trend towards dictatorship and repression.

FIFTEEN labour camp inmates in the Soviet Union stitched He chances. had boasted that up their lips in protest against Vietnam would be not an bad conditions, the reports election but it is Issue, latest issue of the underground clear that the Saigon regime journal 'Chronicle withstand the of Current cannot attacks without close US support.

Events'. In desperation, Nixon Six of the prisoners were resumed the immediately transferred to psy- which to move chiatric wards and the rest put The opposition at home. Self- in solitary confinement. of withdrawing US programme. mutilation by prisoners has been is a vital troops plank of the reported before. Republican election programme, Nixon's future is irrevocably The 'Chronicle' also yet reports tied the security of the on a trial held last November in to his Sverdlovsk in which seven people Saigon government through 'Vietnamization' received for programme. prison sentences The whole fragile structure of alleged anti-Soviet activity.

Vietnam is The American policy in Soviet trade union daily 'Trud' reprinted a slashing attack Nietnamese aesty crumbles under question novelist Alexander on the advance of the N. Solzhenitsyn which first appeared in a Polish Catholic paper.

. Three Basques accused • him glorifying Prussian militarism his in latest arrested novel August 1914', which has not been published in the Soviet THREE young Basque national- Union. ists have been arrested in Bilbao This a further attempt to with. and charged illicit discredit the bid writer whose association. This follows fresh to the Nobel receive prize outbreaks of violence in the recently awarded Spanish Basque region, including Moscow has just been prevented car of San of the burning the a refusal of a visa to Dr Karl Sebastian's police chief.

Ragnar Gierow, who was to have The action was believed to be made the presentation. (Basque the of the i

ETA

work which is also Land and Liberty), for a of held responsible bomb civil attacks on memorials. to see Bhutto INDIA is ready for talks with Pakistan without pre-conditions. Foreign Minister Iftikhar Ali said Mrs Gandhi had written to President Bhutto through the policy to resist pressures to Switzer- countries' embassies in interfere with currency and trade land. questions which they consider to Gandhi proposed talks at be their preserve. summit level after preparatory In its eight years of existence discussions. This is the first sign

UNCTAD

of has done virtually cf restoration relations for the underdeveloped between the two countries nothing since countries and the Santiago meet- the last December and the war ing is only expected to reveal its creation of Bangla Desh. She bankruptcy in the face complete hadi previously insisted prior recognition of the new of growing world poverty.

state,

AIR traffic control officers at Heathrow Airport plan to 'withdraw goodwill' towards their employers, the Depart- ment of Trade and Industry, from next week over a staff shortage dispute. They are afraid that staff shortages could affect their summer leave. The dispute - involving 56 Heathrow well . if the men do not get satis- faction. Representatives yesterday met Institute officials from the Professional Civil Servants discuss the dispute.

WORKERS

Fenner's engineering works, Hull, have voted to return to work after a nine-week strike. A 'basis for agreement' has been reached between man- agement, J. H. Fenner & Co, and members of the technical and supervisory section (TASS) of the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. The men walked out over the alleged victimization of one of their colleagues who was declared • redundant along with 28 others at the end of January.

Two weeks ago the supervisory staff were joined by 18 shop- floor workers and by AUEW members from the Hainsworth research centre. A management statement on Thursday said that seven of the redundant workers have been found temporary alternative employment 'for a maximum period of two weeks while further discussions are held to review proposals union officials have made about redundancy'.

These redundancy proposals would include 'the possibility of some volunteers and early retire.

ments', say management. Fenner's say they have insisted that no guarantee can be given that the original number redundancies can be reduced.

And they add: It has been accepted that continue discus- agreement to does establish sions the not recognition of negotiating rights by the union for other than a small group who have had this recognition for many years.'

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDEN

WORKERS in four more N strike yesterday bringing th number of lock-outs also incre John Tocher, district organizer of the Amalgam- ated Union of Engineering Workers, said yeterday that the total number of workers dispute exceeded now 20,000. 'It is quite clear that the Manchester employers are now encouraging their membership to lock workers out in order to exert maximum pressure on their own leadership for talks at national level on hours and holidays within the next ten days.' Manchester employers say that only a minority of their members are affected by the district-wide action for more money, shorter hours and longer holidays.

The unions dispute this claim and it is true that almost all.

of the big engineering plants in Manchester greater are now occupied, immobilized by a lock- out or experiencing a work-to- rule. The latest to join in the action Will be 1,000 workers at Simons Engineering, Stockport. So far they have refused union instructions to begin a ban on piecework and awaited a manage- ment reply to a domestic claim.

This came two days ago when Simons offered £1:50. extra week-an offer which is in line with the policy of the Engineer- ing Employers' Federation. The Simons workers will begin their piecework ban on Monday.

BP profits prospects 'EXTREMELY discouraging' is how BP chairman Sir Eric Drake sees the profit prospect for 1972.

Main reason is the growing trade depression, coming on top of a mild winter, which cut demand for heating fuel. The oil giant hopes that further price increases will assist the position. Like other oil com- panies BP has excessive stocks of oil. Three tankers are being used solely for storage. In view of and stagnant declining demand, capital expan- sion will be cut but costs of new development in the North Sea and Alaska continue to rise and many commitments will have to be maintained. Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 62½p

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more Manchester factories went on ing the total in the district to 2i

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Mirrless (Hawker Slddoley) Rushton Paxton (GEC-AEI) tion James M Steelworks (GKN) AEl Archibald Edmeston • Archibald Edmeston Lawrence Scott Francie Shaw British Steel Corporation Joseph Robinson Electro Hydraulics Redpath Pearson Redpath Pearson Davles and Metcalfe H.O. Serck Peart Engineering Flexibox (Burmah Oll) Metal Box Company Barlow and Chidlaw Linotype and Machinery Works John Plumpton The list Increases every day and some tion with management continues. In a the Trafford Park estate are locked out.

engineers AN executive investigation into redundancies at Omes Faulkners Ltd Colnbrook factory, Bucks, has been called for by Coln- brook and Poyle 280 CE branch of the engineers' union (AUEW).

Thursday's Slough District Committee of the AUEW, carried a motion deploring the inactivity of the district secre- tary in particular and the district committee in general in opposing the redundancies. About seven of the 15 district committee members, including secretary G. Currell, are also Communist Party members. The resolution proposed on Thursday by • sacked miller R. Bakhshi said: "The way our convenor [Frank Tomany] was interfered with by the district committee was abso- lutely disgusting? • See next Thursday's Workers Press for a series on the politics behind the sackings. Workore Press, Saturday April 8, 1972 PAQE THE PAY battle in the greater Manchester area has Gilbertian aspects. Take the group determined occupiers Flexibox at engineering, Wythenshawe, seen below. They are allowed to sit-in the plant by night the management each day. bosses lock the doors as usual.

"We have taken them on their word so far' said one worker, 'Whether the good continue relations things get worse as throughout the district remains be to seen.' Two days ago management approached the and asked them would men they mind occupying half-an-hour later in the vent on sit-in morningit would give the staff who hold the keys that little bit extra in the to 22. The morning.

DISTRICT/TOWN

NO. OF WORKERS

Stockport 2,000 Warrington 2,000 1 Stackport 1,200 Stockport 1,000 Openshaw 800 Openshaw 800 Eccles 100 Openshaw 800 Openshaw 500 Openshaw 500 Salford 300 Warrinaton Trafford Park Warrington Stockport 180 Openshaw 130 Hyde 100 Wythenshawe 150 Timperley, Cheshire 300 Salford 120 Broadheath 1,000 Manchester Road and sometimes firms that have declared a sit-in may Ilft It while negotia- In addition to these occupations 3,500 men at AEl's glant works on The dally paper that loads the fight against the Torles. £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months 196 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Circulation Dept., Workers Press 186a Clapham High St., London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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BUILDING

THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

Have you read the Draft Manifesto adopted by the All Trades Unions Alliance at views on the document in a letter to the Workers Press?

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and a revolutionary party. understood throughout the workers' movement: trade unionists, their families, students, the unemployed and people in the professions are invited to express their views on the Manifesto.

your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani festo discussion.

CHARLIE ROLLA

A 24-year-old Liverpool busman and recruit recent revoluuotar movemell ne years an active, though

TOT

critical member of the Young Communist League. My development really started in with the Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact the This cuttico cause• a creat deal Or Turmon the ranks of the YCL. Of course the Party's formal position dismiss was But kind of mistake this some not Marxist seem to of looking at it-events of such importance are not Just the policy mistakes of a few men. whole of people my group age began to question the reason for the This led invasion. us on of rally democracy and changing the Party. One imagined for a time. within. could changed from uner we read Deutscher who explanation for one gave sophisticated rise anu connucu collance But course stalinism. that the objective was for socialism were So orces strong that there was no neca lot the revolutionary alternative traditions party continue Bolshevism. This is by way of bringing oul the two most important things in the Manifesto and the Socialist There are two great differences to stress between the SLL and all the other tendencies in the labour movement. One is the the SLL continually an insists movement and the revoluulonary main call or tne Maniesto Is Io1 such a movement to be risist as the crisis solution the facing the working leaaersup class. ATU A mark themselves an tre this way the League and the every the order tendency labour movement. groups Other alliances, but all of them propose this the call Cical révolutionary party. The second great difference is

SLL

the that the places at of the Tory. government. More this Manifesto, phoney important, the the acialia. workers Press ane moe campains of the League show. would use the the position describe Communist Party. Of course the has all sorts of phrases about getting a General Election and though. This is the section on the working class can deal with tae policy of driving out the Tories Tory government they can deal they or. nOW Labour traitors a Lab. with the campaign in practice-that is to and replacing them with like this seeks enemy mid atht all costs with our government pledged But seek compromise socialist policies. clarified. What will be the against any re?- We believe of tionship between the course, the pre- attempt raise une •onlucal question in a struggle. The most tionary party to the Labour Party sent dour leadersmip mcapabie them, important example ot bullding socialism. hut many ana the trade unions. will Lads. They to are fused aboa The revolutionary party been well covered They want to know how counted in thousands -quite be Workers small in number compared to the Lavour government sels pledged Mani- to such policies. big festore ould like to see clarified There is exisunensuuuons Of course; one'says that if 'the.. working class.

What, in particu-

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National C will our relationship lar, with the Labour Party at this time a class upheaval when the leader- ship in the Labour Party is under such tremendous pressure? Will we affiliate or what? It seems to me more is needed on these points. We know, as the Manifesto says, with the crisis in world capitalism - acutely reflected in this country - the social demo- crats and reformists are them-

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al Conference selves in chaos. They turn them- selves into their opposites-from , go to the being the men who with ruling class the begging bowl to a group that can engage in working-class oppression.

One recalls the Common Mar- ket vote and Wilson's role in Ireland on these points. is social democracy How going to be removed is still a question that has not been com- pletely answered for me.

Colonel Hugo Banzer, the Bolivian dictator, began talks in Brazil this week with the head of the Brazilian police state, General Emilio Medici.

Since the coup, Brazilian banks and. building societies have been establishing branches in. Bolivia and Brazilian investment has poured in. Brazilian credit and Brazilian technical skill have been used to build a sugar-processing plant, an oil refinery and a cotton mill in Bolivia. Petrosas, the Brazilian state oil company, has announced that it aims to make large investments in the exploitation of Bolivian petroleum resources. These talks will establish the basis for further Brazilian econo- mic expansion in Bolivia. On the agenda are an agreement for the purchase of Bolivian oil and an- for the construction of a other gas pipeline between Brazil and Bolivia. This marks a continued pay- off for Brazilian support for Banzer's bloody coup against the working class. General Reque Teran, a former ally of Banzer, exiled, recently revealed: now 'I saw the arms that arrived in nine C-130 the planes of Brazilian air force. They landed in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Oruro at the time of the coup.

There were 1,500 rifles, 500 machine guns and ammunition.'

Already before the coup at the beginning of 1971, the then Brazilian ambassador Tola Paz, General Hugo Bethelem was arrested by the nationalist gov- ernment of Torres for financing a right-wing coup and distribut- ing over $60,000 among civilians and army men. The Medici regime in Brazil is a police state of the imperialism would like Vpe US • to be- come a model for the rest of the Latin American continent. On a recent visit to Rio de Janeiro, American General George Under- wood made this explicit enough: "There limits the are no to potential of Brazil and its armed forces.' The reality for millions in this "model' police state is a life of degradation and starvation. The most common cause of death or illness is malnutrition. Accord- ing to the Pestalozzi Institute in 7 Brazil there are more than million mentally-retarded people condition been whose caused by malnutrition in early childhood. The World Health Organiza- tion mal- has reported that is the cause of 40 per nutrition cent of deaths of children under four years old in Sao Paulo. In the same coastal region, one out of every two people who die is a child under four years old.

Sao Paulo's living standards are the highest in the country, yet more than half of the city's babies are born at home because of the lack of beds in maternity hospitals. Less than 65 per cent of the population has drinking water and only a third has sew- system only age since the ex- tends to the city centre and the luxury suburbs. The problem for WHO and Pestalozzi is that they hope to services in reform the health Brazil under Medici. The absolute corruption of this regime of counter-revolution was For Bolivian peasants (above) the reality of Banzer's role is degra- dation and starvation. Medici (right) has been holding talks with Banzer and sending ald to back his regime. strikingly illustrated in a state- ment by the Brazilian • Minister headlined in of Health banner Sao Paulo recently: "If all the children who die in the first year of life were buried side by side, the graveyard would stretch fer within a year.' He 50 miles should know. He has been re- sponsible for drastically cutting expenditure on public down on health. Between 1967 and 19/0 the real value of federal spending on public health dropped by 30 per and health expenditure cent which once formed 3.03 per cent of the national budget now amounts to l.11 per cent.

The murderous policies of the Medici regime are not limited to surrounding the cities . and in the shantie-towns. Recently Tapirapes Mato Grosso, the Indians have been expelled from their lands by the Tapimaguia 'Settlement Company'. The com- territorial has claimed pany rights over lands which the In- dians have occupied cen- turies near the merging of the Tapirape and Araguai rivers.

With the full backing of the National Indian Foundation and local landlords the company has 'deported' the Indians to reser- vations on Bananal Island, where there tribe faces extinction.

Such the potential is SO favoured by Banzer and the generals uf American imperial- ism—a potential for extermi- nation. Workers Press In the tiny central American state of El Salvador it isn't a good idea to win the elec- tion by too small a margin.

Gen Fidel Sanchez Hernandez found this out to his cost on Saturday, March 25, when he was summarily evicted from his presidential palace by a force of tanks. He wasn't out for long though, and the man who tried to oust him, Napoleon Duarte, is now awaiting court martial in a prison near San Salvador, the country's capital. On February 20, Sanchez's candidate beat Duarte in the presidential election by some 20,000 votes-about 3 per cent of the poll. Duarte protested that some of the Napoleonic votes had dis- appeared in the ballot boxes. He set out to rectify the injustice with the aid of a group of dis- affected army officers. Led by Col Benjamin Mejia, commander of the local garrison, the tanks poured into the capital Duarte's realize frustrated to political ambition and Mejia's dreams of a 'Peruvian' national- ist military regime. Sanchez surrendered to the insurgents at 5 a.m. on Satur- day. At the same time, Duarte announced the dissolution of par- liament where his Christian Democrat supporters had only 17 seats against Sanchez's 35.

Duarte announced the forma- tion of a triumvirate to rule the He had only taken country. he claimed, to 'rectify' power, the results of the ballot.

didn't get the chance to organize a recount. By 5 p.m. the still loyal to the old dictator, sidential palace and driven out the 'Napoleonic' faction.

The episode cost about 100 1,000 lives and people were wounded. Sanchez Hernandez is back in the saddle and looks set to stay dictator for some time to come. He rules over one of the small- est central American republics kers Press, Saturday April 8, 1972 PAGE 5 which has been governed by a succession of military dictator- ships since it won independence in 1821. These regimes, dom- inated by the landed proprietors, have set their faces agairst even the slightest reforms. Over the years they have sucked the country of all its wealth, driving the mass of peas- ants into unimaginable poverty.

Half the cultivable land belongs to 1 per cent of the country's 3.5 million people. These are the families' descended from Spanish aristocrats whose lands produce Salvador's staple crops of coffee, cotton and rubber.

Duarte, who at 46 has been elected three times as San Salva- dor's mayor, denounced during the election campaign the evils of illiteracy (50 per cent of Salva- read or write), doreans cannot agrarian injustice and unemploy- ment. He attacked the poverty which drives whole villages to emigrate across the border into Honduras, causing acute tension between the two countries which erupted into war nearly three years after El Salvador snatcherago world cup football victory from Honduras. But Duarte's campaign got no publicity on the radio or in the which instead devoted papers, acres of space to the statements of Col. Arturo Armando Molina, Sanchez's secretary, and an almost unknown officer who was Duarte's rival in the February election. didn't have Molina much to say, in fact. After his election victory he announced his pro- gramme in three crisp sentences: *I shall carry the policies of Fidel munists in my will mento i will not allow the Soviet Union to open an embassy here while I am president? no doubt This announcement gratified the '14 families'-others received it with indifference or hostility. Already, the peasants are looking towards the moun- Salvador's interior, tains in El where there are reports of re- newed guerrilla activity.

poll 8, 1972

DISCUSSION ON

INTERNATIONAL

CUMMUNE•NE

PERSPECTIVES

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In preparation for the Fourth Congress of the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League are publishing the four main documents of the Inter- split with nationa Committee covering the French Organisation Coramuniste Internationaliste.

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PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday April 8 Belfast after the explosion of a bomb p hearse parked in Church Lane Dear Editor, Recently I note in your press that you appear to be anti- Provisional IRA. It is obvious that you are not aware that the Provisional IRA came into being, because of the lack of support from people whom they thought would be the first to help them, the people of the S of Ireland, who had sufficient weapons to defend them, and when they were being gunned down and burned by Protestant B-Specials, and armed gangs of Orange rabble, they had no choice but to defend their homes with guns and any other weapon at their disposal.

Why should they be interested in the welfare of Protestant workers whose unions are only Orange another arm of the Order. How many unions spoke out against the injustices to the minority in Ulster. (NONE.)

It is easy for Sarah Hannigan [London regional YS secretaryl to belittie the Provisionals from her ivory tower because they won't fight for unity with Protestant workers. For one born in the Bogside, one would assume her loyalties would be with her people and their suffering. Then, of course, Ireland is not a super- nation of super people. She is trying to set herself up as a Lady Arron; no doubt his Lordship could give her space in his evening to give her press anti-Provisional some more propaganda. No doubt this letter will find a fast route to the waste paper basket as it does not agree with your policy. There is an old Irish proverb. Stand up and be counted or lay down and be DEAD. Mike Banda [SLL Central Committee] once said that it was stupid for Irish men to parade up down Whitehall. and Sarah Hannigan says it's stupid for the Provisional IRA, to fight for their people. What the hell were both doing on Sunday's march. Climbing on a bandwagon. Padraig Uas O'Chaoim. Secretary Lambeth Division Jay April 8, 1972 a bomb planted in a We well aware of the are historical origins of the IRA - Official and Provisional. As you correctly state, the Irish workers in the Catholic ghettos had no option but to defend themselves the armed of against gangs Orangemen. The Provisionals were correct to defy the 'Officials' and keep their weapons despite from the British assurances Labour traitors and exhortations from Dublin Castle. im- But the struggle against d a perialism does not end with the self-defence the armed Catholic ghetto. It only begins there. the IRA Provisionals were If really dedicated to the idea of a Ireland, in which united Protestant and Catholic could live work together without and emnity and distrust, then they were duty bound to address them- selves to Protestant workers and class point out their common transcend the interests which sectarian religious differences.

They could and should have explained the Protestant to workers that the fundamental pre- condition defending their democratic rights, their jobs and ce their living standards is the resignation •of the Tory govern- ment and the complete and un- conditional withdrawal of troops.

But Mr O'Chaoim retorts: 'Why should they be interested in the welfare of Protestant workers whose unions are only another arm of the Orange Order.'

Why not O'Chaoim? Why not criterion apply the same to British unions well? How as many British unions have called for withdrawal of troops or an end to direct rule? Does this mean that we write off the British working class as a political ally of Irish labour, or do we fight with even greater tenacity for a inter- genuine nationalist attitude to the Irish problem? is No, Mr O'Chaoim, there nothing in the history of peoples which indicates that or classes religious, linguistic or even cultural differences are SO irrevocable as to preclude their dissolution eventual and the emergence of unity. The logic of unregenerate 'separatism' you will find only in the dustbin of history or-more topically- in the election mani- festos of Senator George Wallace.

We see no reason why we should acquiesce-even reluctant- ly-to the present domination of Protestant workers by Orange separatists than any more we should allow the pro-Catholic nationalists to establish hegemony over the Catholic working class, Nor S. The Provisional IRA, by refus- ing to meet the challenge of the Vanguard Movement and by its policy of indiscriminate bombing, has proved--if proof is needed- that it acts as the spearhead of the Catholic bourgeoisie and not of the Irish working class.

It is for this reason that the been Provisional IRA has not able to defeat the British army decisively as the Vietminh were.

able to do with the French in 1953. Behind the policy of individual • terror and insensate attacks on civilian there lies targets, con- cealed an ineffable contempt for the working class and a deep its revolutionary distrust of potential. Provisional IRA policy is based on the belief that is always possible for the Irish bourgeoisie to do a deal with the British rulers-vide 1922--but never Irish working class with the (1913 and 1916). The present opposition of the Provisional IRA to direct rule is--despite the courage of the

IRA

men-completely unprinci- pled since it is contrary to the proclaimed Provisionals Policy of the leader-Mr Joe Cahill. When Cahill was barred from US in September entering the 1971, he told the press that the Provisionals' purpose of campaign was 'to bring about the downfall of Stormont, direct rule and then from Westminster a final conference resulting in a settlement of the Irish question'.

There was nothing then about the withdrawal of troops and, judging from the present priorities of IRA leaders, there will be precious little said about it once direct rule is established.

Why then are the Provisionals complaining about direct rule?

It is little use Mr O'Chaoim slandering Sarah Hanningan or That will abusing Mike Banda. not cover up the political bank- ruptcy of the Provisionals. It will be more pertinent to the discussion if IRA Provisional supporters could explain-with- out mental contortions-how the who demanded Cahill, same direct rule in September, also in December, welcomed, the prospect of talks with Paisley only days after his fellow leader, David O'Connell invited Paisley to set up branches of his party in Catholic areas! The Provisionals are prepared to write off the Protestant and their unions-but workers not their reactionary leaders! This is one reason why Workers Press, of Red unlike the revisionists •Victory to the IRA!, Called for Mole', says: 'Stand Our irate reader up and be counted! We accept the challenge gladly by reprinting opposition to Joe Cahill's our reactionary utterance on direct rule: 'This is the dream of the Irish bourgeois Republicans petty since 1921, but it la final settle- ment] will never materialize. So is capitalism in long as there Ireland and Toryism in Britain there can be no "final settlement" to the Irish question. ... What is worse, it breeds illusions in Irish workers' minds that Toryism is compatible with Irish unity and freedom-and this at a time when the Tories are preparing to de-, prive British workers of their basic rights!' (Workers Press September 3, 1971.) to what our Pro- Contrary visional critic says, neither Mike Banda nor any other SLL member said or implied that it was a waste of time to demonstrate in Whitehall. We marched on the 26th with League to the Anti-Internment demonstrate our opposition to the deprive Tories attempts to workers of their basic rights and not because of any affinity with policy on Ireland the AIL or Britain. We made this perfectly clear in the meeting held in Whitehall Avenue. We are opposed, however, to White- those demonstrations in hall or anywhere else, which aim to 'persuade' the Tories by pro- and try to confine mass test within opposition protest straitjacket. We are convinced, by practical experience much as as theoretical analysis, that Toryism cannot be reformed by protest, but must be overthrown by the construction of a revolutionary party which will lead the working class to victory and socialism.

In conclusion we would ask Mr O'Chaoim to ponder deeply on his insinuations about Lord Comrade Hannigan. Arran and Is it not a fact that the Pro- visional IRA and the Honourable Lord are both in favour of direct rule, while the Socialist Labour League is totally opposed to it and stands for a socialist republic in Ireland and Britain?

TV Review by Anna Tate The Father, Son and The Holy Ghost have had a very good innings over Easter. It is, of course, their wicket and they had the media batting for them too. But it was not merely the con- ventional proselytizers who made their imprecatory appearance. For this old • band of gospel- peddlers have, during the past of . inflationary hope, years suffered a grave loss of popu- in divine larity, a decline circulation, a crisis of celestial conviction. Those days being over, their ranks are now being of the swelled the rise youthful 'Jesus freaks'. So the past week has seen not only the Pope's blessing languages delivered in diverse of sanctimoniously diffuse and content, but also Bishop Anthony Bloom of the Russian Orthodox Church with a message of hope based on the blooming of two cherry trees after the holocaust of Hiroshima. A bcom-bloom philosophy— what does it matter so long as blossom, there's a cherry for works in God mysterious ways through nuclear blasts and magic flowers. Then there was Dora Bryan, ever ready and supremely capable in the art cliché, appearing to do her bit of celestial public re- lations on ITV. Likewise David Frost, never one to miss a sacred opportunity —one foot in each camp and an in heaven, just for extra one luck-conducted his usual probe -this time into God. A sort of hands up, hands up for Jesus.

But the most disturbing, if predictable, sign of the religious been the emergence, times, has over the past year, of the hippie population from their 'drop out' of reality and 'freak in' to the Jesus scene. there's been a deal of And investment and profit capital this return in move from the happy, hipped-out playgrounds of Haight Ashbury to the holy ground of commercial theatre success. From pot-head to God- head, from the LSD trip to the Jesus trip in one easy, evasionary move of the alienated, spon- taniest, self-obsessed, middle- class young. from 'Godspell', the Excerpts religious rock musical (which began its the Round- at run house, was acclaimed as 'Verily .. a hit!' by the press, and is now playing in the West End) were shown by the BBC on Easter Sunday. Based on the Gospel accord- ing to St Matthew, it has been anti-materialist, described as anti-pollution and anti-work, but could with greater accuracy have been described anti-reality, as anti-communist, antiseptic and distinctly anti-entertaining.

'Everyone's turning to Jesus— this Hallelujah!', prociaims month's 'Vogue' the magazine, glossy people's guide to a glossy world. And with 'Jesus Christ, Super- star' about open here after to a smash-hit début in the USA, it looks as if the Son of God and his financial backers are on the upgrade. Even the reverend brothers of the Communist Party have been wondering how to stretch the well-worn elastic of their all-embracing containment in order to include the theological boom. Both 'Vogue' and the 'Morning Star' are, however, deeply mis- guided in their interoretation. Not everyone is turning to Jesus by any means, and the Hallelujah brigade convey nothing not the mystical optimism of politic- ally bankrupt pessimists.

The hippie movement, largely of the children of composed white, middle America, emerged Above: 'Jesus Christ, Superstar' in New York from the violent crisis in which that society found itself in the 1960s. The wholesale aggression of a system enmeshed in its own contradictions — with manic consumer drive at home and militarism abroad—pro- deadly foundly affected this situation of white, middle-class youth.

As blacks rioted against their oppression in violent, long, hot white kids migrated summers, under the impulse of 'new vibrations' towards their Mecca of Height Ashbury on the California coast. The hippie exodus represented the height of introspection; a complete turn away from reality.

but In rejecting and atrocity war they searched not for a political dialectic, but for a personalized, mirror-image narcissistic on which feed their damaged to self-esteem. Simplistic polarities sufficed.

'ugly' Johnson was and the hippies 'the beautiful were Marines carried people'. The guns, the hippies flowers. Living euphoria in the of an solely escapist present, it seemed to the beautiful people that 'flower power' would transcend banal and unpleasant realities.

Needless to say, flower power remained firmly in the hands of Interflora. Moreover, it became cold in as it is wont to do, the parks, tending to weave a nature scientific rather than a transcen- dental meditation course, reality lay, as ever, in the barrel of a National Guardsman's gun.

Having used drugs to sustain their fantasy vision, it was now inevitable that the movement would turn to that other opiate of the people-religion. In doing so, it has returned to the womb of middle-class values. Workers Press, Saturday April 8, 1972 PAGE 9

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Giant rabbits sit-in by the 1,000 workers at their Bredbury slee woks Stockport, Cheshire, in sup- Peru's military government port of the full national en- expanding ban on the its gineers' pay claim. sale of beef. Sir seph Kagana chairman is The previous two-days-a- Joseph chairman and week ban was thwarted by managing director of 'Gannex'- Peruvians simply buying more Kagan Textiles Ltd. He is be- ban was the day before the lieved to have sought the enforced. approval ot his close triend Starting last Saturday, beef Wilson before joining. available in the 1s now onlv second fortnight of each month. The government hopes to cut hard currency outlays and tor increase con- onert sumption of fish. The fishing department has opened up a dock and a just backing plant with a capacity for 2,000 tons Fishing Mini- ster General Talian Vanini has announced that 1,500 tons are already sufficient waenouseo for for Lima's a lort night. The Peruvian middle class is clinging tenaciously to its juicy steak and food specula- Mr Wllson : famous support tors are moving in. The mili- It Wilson; you will re- tary government, unperturbed, was. member, Gan- the has set up combat nD aO e squads ot famous! nex raincoat women who will take part in Campaign director is none a vasl operalional plan lo pre other than Michael Ivens vent fish, fow! and pork director of the right-wing Aims hoarding. This includes vigi- of Industry. His speciality lance over all Lima greater the production of leaflets con- markets ana controi posts on taining information reproduced the highways coming into the from left-wing. newspapers ciyne project which is really warning about the dangers of the growth of left-wing rocking the profiteers is a plan to increase consumption of the Olcan zations For this pursuit he receives guy, a tiny Andes' rodent, and donations from numerous fot the raisingo of giant rabbies anotner to set up centres companies. The middle class is enraged Also in campaign are the Sir Trevor Lloyd Hughes, about upsetting its diet and is former press adviser to Harold enthusiastic the

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Fidel Castro. 'It Says "The Guardian': Great future hopes to persuade people that if Britain has a great future It's called •.. the 'Working only everyone could work to- Together Campaign'. It's a new gether.' £lm campaign launched to Workers on ne oowne promote harmony in industry like those in GKN companies, it apparently -and has the snoula walch oul lor signs of support of Labour's 'co-operation' shortly: TaCIT greater Opposition leader Harold Wil- Champion Sparking Plugs, son. Portland Associated Cement, Chairman Sir Anthony 15 Ranks Hovis, Powell Duffryn Bowlby, director of Guest, and Automotive Products. All Keen and Nettlefold who have donated to 'Work To- al c currently engaged in fighting a gether".

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Fighting the Tories Rent Bill Return to Rachmanism PAGE 10 Workers Pross, Saturday April 8, 1972 BESIDES council tenants, million some people living in unfurnished accom- modation will find that as from January their next will phased tenancies be out of rent control. Figures over the past few years show that the 'fair rent' for their flats and houses could mean an increase of over 250 per cent.

BY PHILIP

That has been the experience under Labour's 1965 Rent Act 'About 60 to 70 per cent of all which first introduced the con- workers of alc

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cept of 'fair rent'. Rent assess- Because bonus or piecework their earnings change so much, they ment committees have looked could themselves continually favourably on landlords making having to apply for a means test.

applications under the Act.

Another thing is people with In S Acton, in W London, tenants grown-up sons and daughters living have formed an association walch wao so our to work could both and council private find themselves paying tenants. because the assessment is made on ine person with the highest income Oram, works "This Bill is taking us back before Leyland's Park Royal plant. IS World War Transport and General Workers' it aims to make a Union member. proht out of rents. And any more money made won't buy brick 'The aim of this Bill is simple.

because most of it will go back to to get out of

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¡vic people's lorv And government pockets for what they forget to tell you about 'Just think of the tremendous amount of irreparable damage counci houses Is that rents have this been the has done such soaring last few years. who lives in a tower short period of time. It will become Mr vram, Ealing impossible for future generations to block on one of council's estates pair new pointed to his rent gel a place to live "There books. In 6,000 payıng applicants on £3 13s 2d. His rent now, including Ealing's housing list. they double the rents, people will have to show • recent rates increase, 1s zэ.y0.

they're earning about £35 *The idea of the rent rebates are week. farcical. If you pay another £2 you on the list? Will they will they set get fl might ret a flat? Of course not!

the Bill, get a needs allowance of E13:50° 4, "The idea of housing as a social for couple. been eliminated. The necessity nas How Tories anyone supposed live housing on. a on that for a week? dictatorial basis - telling councils THE TORY 'fair rent' proposals will lead to poor families be forced into ghettos on the worst council estates and the turn over of private accommodation to the middle class.

It is well known that in their worst hoyses and tenants are housing depart- many flats where the rents are pet rent alowance ments already allocate high. cannot afford not so poor families their worst Even if this was not the But accommodation. section case, the families Bill the enables This is done because would be able never authorities to afford to live in the new the family is thought to rent allowances in ce blocks of flats. 'unreliable' or be would circullistances One such block under be unable the •Fair Deal for Hous N London construction in rent of a newer dwelling.

the White Paper foreru likely 'fair is to have The housing allocated is of the Bill states: rent' between £20 to "The usually very old council allowance £25 a week. based on only a propos housing, much of it war and in poor state Taking into account the the fair rent of repair, or old properties allowed dwelling much la rebate 1S the council has bought up under the Bill, the than the tenant req pros- prior to demolition. pective tenant would still or situated in an 1S If the Tories are able have to find £17 a week, of high property Housing where the carry their exclusive of rates. Finance Bill The from into effect, million private choice rather this situation will get tenants living in rent- from necessity. This With doubled rents, controlled unfurnished pre- provision Worse. families could only mises will soon find them- work out in the follo poor An elderly choose to live in such selves in a similar position way. housing if council tenants. area which they live in an received to From de- large rent rebates. next January recently become control begins and the 'fair able and well sought a But local authorities will themselves if Property values money, save Under the Bill they can put these families these have jumped result. 'Fair-rent' levels. cal IMF debt clash fail reflect LU situation, with cies acceptable to IMF. A TOUGH stand by the the of the

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US Treasury making it The remaining third couple's its poemer controlled 1 flat soars difficult for Britain to repay would be handled in the a £320m debt to the Inter- same way by the other They would national Monetary Fund. rich countries. need the maximum Britain does not want to The US Treasury wants of £7. allowance gold Britain part or paper local authority with provid gold (Special Drawing thirds the repayments this fuse pay in gold and SDRs. Rights) held as part of the This is the grounds that on effort to bolster the currency reserves and other flat is in an dollar and pass some of countries are reluctant to property values. the accept dollars. the strain on inter- In this way such pe could be forced Most countries would be national monetary system prepared to see Britain pay on to Britain. their property turned A clash between the one-third in and to the rich and trend! paper gold, two likely one-third in countries is happening in many i US when the debt problem is central London dollars which the would convert into curren- discussed. The Tory government has introduced to ›arllament the Housing Finance BIll which will double council rents.

hated Bill The will destroy the right to decent housing at reasonable rents for millions of working- class families. Like unemployment, the Industrial Relations Act and the rising food price bonanza, the BIll forms part of to drive down the deliberate Tory. polic! standard of living of the working Class.

UNDER THE BILL:

• and new town corporatior charge for the first time

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geared to market yalue- -what an will be estate agent thinks a property Is worth.

• AVERAGE RENTS

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Y PHILIP WADE

• RENTS FIXED by committee of property men anc what lawyers. No appeal. They have the right to Inspect they can do and what they council houses. Penalty for obstructing them: CoL oO. £50 tine. 'Now tenants will find rizate rents going up two and a half theit

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•cłober a compulsory Private landlords have kacamanist been given all the rights under this • COUNCILS REFUSING to raise rents and operate "They'll be the. Act can be deprived all housing TOlne government Housing who can't saying those assumed by afford won't" Commissioner with Intormacion cold mean tiney Retusa Cols ciles: Don't of up to £400. rent book.

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will move Into accounts Tint une surplus and half of this will be taken about £12 dor Do more or four ears tenante three be paying an extra £500 mllilon in rents.

Wanl dOLACI nere. • PRIVATE TENANTS—1.3 million of them-living people's which in controlled properties: Decontrol begins trom represent which January thoir 140 rents will ralsed to one the •oes an nonene 'falr' levels. 'The working will have to what they and demand

DISCUSSION

say, on the Bill was cut short by the we've 29. t has now finished its com.

lores on naci mittee stage in the House of Commons. Three leaaersnip Wi su ooon us. this rents issue more days are left the no for report and third is and I'm going to waiting reading stages betore it aoes to the House Lords. 101 Il, illies being he turning supposed if they the tair local savagely. The birthday cake picture ces cenkni AUEW Jurnal after the Walen

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for Housing', had been the men per torerunner year. picket ine for a will be y a proportion Science larger requires

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ate no Dosedi 1NC CAPCacIe above But the mood on the But much wider action of British Army. usually this felt necessary land has shown picket line is not sort is political differences can- probably Although by the pickets ocular. LuC not be soved by the use But the sophisticated techno-

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Two Clyde ships released PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday April 1 WOLVERHAMPTON: From

DAVID MAUDE

A SIX-MONTH reprieve from redundancy has been won by workers at the Willenhall Car Radiator Company, near Wolverhampton. Yesterday a mass meeting at the factory voted over- whelmingly to return to work on Monday after hearing the terms of an agreement nego- tiated by shop stewards and local union officials. The factory has been in dispute since February 14.

The agreement means a full resumption of work by all 875 workers at the factory, including 79 whose jobs had previously been threatened. If after three months manage- ment still claim they have surplus labour, they can approach the involved — the vehicle unions builders and the sheet metal workers-for negotiations.

Short-time working would be implemented for a further three- month period while these talks took place. Arthur Tudor, the works' convenor, told Workers Press after yesterday's meeting that he was, broadly speaking, happy with the agreement. 'It's a tribute to the solidarity of the strike and the way our members picketed the factory,' he said. •What I like particularly is that it gives us the chance to negotiate security of employ- a ment agreement with the com- although obviously we're pany, got a lot of building to do there.

But the terms of the return, although sweetened by holiday pay and for the two Bank holt- day days the works were out, do not banish the redundancy threat permanently. The management simply hopes that any redundancy which may prove necessary could be dealt with by voluntary means. There is also dissatisfaction on the shop floor with a £1.50 pay rise the workers are due 10 receive backdated to April 1.

It is now being unfavourably compared with a £3 rise given to staff. BRITAIN is expected to contact the Soviet Union soon to discuss the Vietnam crisis. There has been no indication here whether Britain will make specific proposals any to the or will simply Soviet Union examine possible of courses action.: Britain, as co-chairman with the Soviet Union of the Geneva Conference on Indo-China, has been in touch with the United States both in Washington and in London about the crisis.

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01-622 7029 EIGHT HUNDRED workers at Davy Manufacturing, Darnall, Sheffield, part of the Davy United yesterday decided group, to occupy their plant to back their demand for higher pay. mass meeting rejected a A company offer of up to £1.92 for skilled engineers. A ban taking finished goods out of the factory has already built up a backlog of worth production more than £1.5m. ePublished We orders press Published by Workers Press 1868 Clapham High Street, London,

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BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

RAIL DELAYS

e on London's Underground and the S Region will start on Monday, despite a union appeal to keep traffic moving normally. The drivers' union, ASLEF, decided yesterday to call on members not to disrupt traffic until after Tuesday's meeting with the British Rail Board.

SEVENTY - EIGHT of Ulster's. internees : were released from the con- centration camps yester- day. But there are still 842 men behind the wire. The token gesture by the ENGLAND except the NW and S Wales will have sunny periods and scattered showers. N Wales, NW England, Ireland and SW Scotland will have showers, heavy at times and some sunny periods.

Scotland, except the E, the Glasgow area, and the SW will have showers or longer periods of rain with hills. snow on Remaining parts of Scotland will scattered showers and have sunny periods. Temperatures will be a little below normal, but it will be sather cold. ASLEE andr the other rail unions, the National Union Railwaymen and the Transport and Salaried Staffs' Association, are locked in a pay struggle which has been dragging on for months. The unions a bit the Board, demandur&o oper cent Thereases, backed by the Tory government, 9 per has only offered cent increases on basic rates.

When talks broke down on Thursday, ing Board chairman Richard March would consult •his said he of Tory government has been welcomed by many of the Labourite and reformist leaders. On hearing William Whitelaw's announcement, John Hume, MP, said: "Thank God things are moving at last." Gerry Fitt, MP said the releases marked 'an important step in the right direction'.

The Provisional IRA is insist- ing that the 'war goes on' until ELEVEN Tory MPs have been promoted to ministerial office and five ministers are dropped in changes announced Jesterday Prime Minister Edward Heath. Robert Carr, author of the Industrial Relations Act, becomes Leader of the House successiòn to William Whitelaw and the new Secretary for Em- ployment is Maurice Macmillan, son of Harold Macmillan. ministers who have Those 'resigned' are Frederick Corfield (Aerospace), Nicholas Ridley and and David (Trade Price Industry), Paul Bryan (Employ- Richard Sharples ment) (Home Office).

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

A MASS meeting of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' workers in Glasgow yesterday decided to release two newly-completed ships. This latest capitulation-totally against the declared aims of the 'work-in'—was put to the 7,000 men by James Reid, chairman of the co-ordinating committee and member of the Communist Party's national executive. Reid said: 'If we take a decision to hold these vessels and if a decision about Marathon is in the pipeline, those on the extreme right will be in full cry and our action can be used by our enemies to sabotage a settlement in Clydebank that would give us, eventually, complete victory in our fight.'

Reid's recommendation means that two ships, the bulk carrier 'Tacoma City' and the cargo ship, 'Samjohn Governor', will be allowed to leave the Clyde.

They will be released at a time when absolutely nothing has been settled on the Clyde.

The Tory government has given no assurances about the future of Clydebank (where Samjohn Governor' was built) and thousands of jobs are at stake there.

Reid's cringing speech yesterday is vastly different from the Communist Party's line only a few months ago.

November 5 On Star st the 'Morning carried Party's this front page story: 'NO

GUARANTEE - NO

SHIPS!

This the fighting was ultimatum to the Tory govern- some 8,500 ment given today by

UCS

workers meeting in the Clydebank yard. 'Spelled out it that means unless the starts government moves before the end of the for the of all year retention colleagues on Monday to seek a yards and job, the Iour every fresh offer. vessels to be launched three in Tuesday's resumed If next the next ten days will be the meeting fails to produce a satis- last leave until such to factory settlement, the pay rOW guarantees are given. It is the will almost certainly be referred UCS-government mightiest con- to arbitration. frontation the historical since NUR chief Sir Sidney Greene work-in began five months ago.'

said the day that he other The 'Mr report went regarded Marsh as 'our guardian Jimmy Reid was enthusiastically angel. "We greeted when he said: make it abundantly clear to the

UNEMPLOYMENT

in the that they had 5.9 government United States rose to per things moving before better get March after dipping cent in to the end of this year-or nothing 5.7 This February. per cent these yards. We will not leaves brings it back to the January allow them to drag the situation level. until we are in a relatively

GUL

weak position". Reid and the CP have But weakened deliberately the all they've struggle at stages: refused to raise political demands three demands are met. for forcing the Tory govern- • Stormont abolished (the meet torous- yardh-ove nothinn resign, they've broken 15 Tories have already obliged).

the pledge by discussions opening All political prisoners are with the Tory rump freed. company, Govan Shipbuilders, and they've • Troops are removed from the unofficially given assurances streets and a statement of inten- government about no-strikes the tion is made about the evacua- work back - breaking and tion of troops. practices. Yesterday the chairman of the tribunal which looked into the 1969 Mr Justice Scarman riots, said: 'I love Ireland.'

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